Collaborative transmedia poetry project with Daniel Kupferberg and Theda Weber-Lucks.
States of being, transitions, transformations – between enduring, releasing, opening up; between swirling fantasies of incapacity and self-analytical disintegration. Undergoing the endless movements between the embodied and the conceptual, braving the ever-futile attempt to grasp the unnameable in the primordial stream of signs. These processes lie at the core of the 10 minimalist poems of morning songs.
Translated sonically and visually, they become a game, an existential one at that, of intra-actions between light and shadow, (re)inventing and tearing apart, murmuring and rustling. A series of transmedial afterlives: a poetry cycle reincarnated as a series of drawings reborn as a sound performance reanimated as a video art piece.
The project has developed through three principal phases:
morning songs #1 & #2: poetry / visual poetry publication in the Dvoetochie magazine (2021).
morning songs #3: performances at Haus am Kleistpark (2023, as part of Berlin Draussenstadt event series) and ACUD / Berlin School of Sound (2024).
morning songs #3.5 & #4: exhibitions at hinterconti (Hamburg, 2025) and Versopolis Poetry Expo 2026 (online).
morning songs #1: poems & #2: drawings
Vadim Keylin (poetry), Daniel Kupferberg (drawing).
First published in Dvoetochie #36 (2021). First exhibited at hinterconti (Hamburg, Germany) in July 2025.
morning songs #3: performances & #3.5: video
ACUD / Berlin School of Sound, 18 February 2024
Daniel Kupferberg (drawings, projections), Sofia Borges (percussion), Theda Weber-Lucks (voice), Vadim Keylin (poetry, voice) & Werner Dafeldecker (electronics).
Filmed by Elmar Kaiser, edited by Daniel Kupferberg & Theda Weber-Lucks.
Video first exhibited as part of morning songs #4 at hinterconti (Hamburg, Germany) in July 2025.
Haus am Kleistpark / Berlin Draussenstadt, 15 September 2023
Daniel Kupferberg (drawings, projections), Sofia Borges (percussion), Theda Weber-Lucks (voice), Udo Agnesens (electronics) & Vadim Keylin (poetry, voice).
morning songs #4: exhibition
hinterconti, 4-6 July 2025
Vadim Keylin (poetry, listening scores), Daniel Kupferberg (drawings, projections, objects, video), Theda Weber-Lucks (vocal performance).
With the kind support of the Authority for Culture and Media, Hamburg.